Hate and Love in Pyschoanalytical Institutions

It offers necessary protection against detrimental aberrations, but it also evokes fantasies of critical or condemning colleagues, who might have insight into what transpires within the walls of the analyst’s own private practice - leading to a reluctance to communicate openly about their analytical experience. In this sense, the professional superego contributes to the paranoization of collegial communication, a circumstance that has a hampering effect on spontaneity and creativity in both clinical and theoretical work. Jurgen Reeder’s groundbreaking research, uncovering the dynamics of the professional superego in psychology, psychotherapy and psychoanalysis, can be applied to other professions as well, including social work, medicine, education, law, and the ministry.